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TURKESTAN DESERT
I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A desert in Turkmenistan to the south of the Aral Sea
Synonyms:
Kara Kum; Qara Qum; Turkestan Desert
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Instance hypernyms:
desert (arid land with little or no vegetation)
Holonyms ("Turkestan Desert" is a part of...):
Turkmen; Turkmenia; Turkmenistan; Turkomen (a republic in Asia to the east of the Caspian Sea and to the south of Kazakhstan and to the north of Iran; an Asian soviet from 1925 to 1991)